Synodic month length 29.74 days

Length of current 974 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than next lunation 975 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 11 October 2078 Tuesday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠146.4°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠146.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠172.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon after apogee

2 days after point of apogee on 9 October 2078 at 06:58 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 October 2078 at 20:52 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 402 410 km

Moon after descending node

3 days after its descending node on 8 October 2078 at 06:08 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 October 2078 at 22:26 in ♉ Taurus.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

13 days after previous North standstill on 28 September 2078 at 11:14 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.518°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.596° in the next southern standstill on 13 October 2078 at 00:13 in ♑ Capricorn.